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Architecture That Doesn't Only Live in Nature But Is Made of It
Inspired by bird nests or vanishing building techniques, architecture based on natural materials is an expanding focus in both sculpture garden and urban landscape.
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Extinct Feathers Flock Together at Smithsonian
Once ubiquitous in North America, by 1914 the population of passenger pigeons had been reduced by relentless hunting to a single bird named Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. When Martha herself was found dead in her cage on September 1 of that year, she was packed on 300 pounds of ice and rushed to the
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Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
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Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
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How Soon Is Now? A Precarious Environment Roots in Art
News of the dramatic remapping of the Arctic ice in the upcoming 10th edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World is only one of the many alarm bells clanging out the message that we live on a changing planet. With that urgency has come an upsurge in environmentally minded art, and a new b
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Museums, Musicians, and Antiques Dealers Resist Harsh New Ivory Restrictions
This spring has seen greater restrictions on the ivory trade in the United States, and while conservation groups and those concerned with the shocking depletion of the elephant and rhinoceros population are enthusiastic about the US Fish and Wildlife Service's stricter ivory rules, others see the se
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Painting with the City's Invasive Plants
Many of the native plants in New York have been pushed out of the city's concrete expanses, but that's not to say the boroughs don't have a botanic profile. Artist Ellie Irons has spent three summers cultivating and creating pigments from the invasive plant species that have taken root in vacant lot
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Is the Planet Screwed? Artists at Bushwick Open Studios Ponder Nature's Future
It's no secret that climate change and pollution are wrecking the planet. Many artists at the Bushwick Open Studios were internalizing the doom and visualizing the gloom.
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Photographing Ancient Organisms Before They Disappear
Brooklyn-based photographer Rachel Sussman spent nearly a decade tracking down the elders of our world, where life is measured in centuries instead of years.
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Images at the End of the Frozen World
As the northeast of the United States has been submerged into a deep freeze, it seems appropriate to circulate these chilling images poised to go on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery next week.
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A Bag Lady by Any Other Name
There are many dystopian futures out there. Mary Mattingly’s, recently on view at Robert Mann Gallery, is oddly disjunctive, containing the requisite pessimism imbued with occasional broad strokes of optimism.
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Photographing the State of the Environment in the 1970s
Back in the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency sent over 70 photographers to all 50 states in order to document the environmental concerns of the regions.